Portable savings bank



Aug. 1 l 1925.

T. BUEL PORTABLE SAVINGS BANK Filed Feb. 5, 1925 Patented Aug. l1, 1925.

omiten srarss THOMAS BUEL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

:PORTABLE SAVINGS BANK.

Application filed February 5, 1925.

fo all whom t may concer/n.'

Be it known that I, THOMAS BUEL, a citizen of the United States, andresident of New York city, in the county of New York and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in PortableSavings Banks, of which the following is a specification.

'lf his invention relates to portable savings banks and is in the natureof an improvement on the coin receiving and depositing means set forthin Patent No. 1,525,116, granted to me on Feb. 3, 1925 in the UnitedStates Patent Ofce.

rllie object of the invention is not only to make a portable savingsbank, but to make one in an interesting and amusing form.

ln the accompanying drawing illustrating the present invention andforming a part hereof.

Fig. 1 is a side elevation partly in vertical section of a portablesavings bank; and Fig. 2 is a front elevation of a spaced apartmechanical coin chute and tiltable cover representing an animal. Inthe'drawings, 1 is a chambered base having a removable bottoni 2 held inplace by screws 3. The chamber of the base ultimately receives thedeposited coins which are indicated by 4c indicates a kneeling childwhich forms the initial coin receiver and is provided with a coinreceiving passageway 5 which opens at the back of the neck and extendsdownwardly and forwardly between disks 6 held in the forwardlyoutstretched hands of the representation of the kneeling child. Thisinitialcoin receiver may be of any desired form. A coin m deposited inthe intake end of the passageway 5 travels edgewise through a portion ofthe passageway and then rolls edgewise out of this initial coin receiverand travels forwardly and downwardly in the path, al,v

take end 7 is indicated by 10 and shown in Serial No. 6,926.

the form of an animal head which is pivoted at 11 to the upper rearcorner portions of the upwardly diverging sides 8b of the coin receivingchute 8 above the vertical walls 8a. This cover or head is pivoted in anapproximately balanced position so that the head is upwardly raised. Onits side facing the primary coin receiver the head is concave and formedwith side walls 12 which give the appearance of an open mouth into whichthe coin trave-ls from the air gap. The sides l2, converge at the bottomof the concave recess in its medial line 12a and the under end 13 of thehead structure projects forwardly into the space between the divergentwalls Sb. rhe back wall of the secondary coin receiver or chute S is cutout at 14 so that the portion 13 of the head may swing downwardly andrearwardly on the pivots 11 and cause the nose of the head to swingforward giving the appearance of an animal gulping down the coin entrantfrom the air gap. When the coin enters the wide end or mouth 7 of thechute or animal body portion 8, it falls edgewise between the walls 12and strikes against the portion 13 of the head below and forwardly ofthe pivots 11, causing the nose of the upper portion of the head orcover to tip in the direction of the gap and allowing the entrant cointo pass downwardly between the walls 8a and through the slot 9 into thechamber of the base. The wall 12a is opposed to the track 5 and thewalls 12 prevent the coin from getting out of operating position as itstrikes the medial wall 12;I of the portion 13 which forms anobstruction to the free travel of the coin atwise between the walls 12.

`What I claim is:

1. A portable savings bank comprising an initial coin receiver providedwith a downwardly extending and outwardly curving track for supporting adeposited coin vertically edgewise and permitting the coin to travelfrom the exit end of the track into a chute; a coin receiving chutespaced apart from and having an intake end whereby a coin issuing fromthe exit end of the track travels through an air gap to the intake endof the chute member; a coin receiving, chambered structure communicatingwith the delivery end of the chute member; and a coin actuated, tiltablecover member for the intake end of the chute member.

2. A portable savings bank comprising an initial coin receiver providedWith a downwardly extending and outwardly curving track -for supportinga deposited coin vertically edgewise and permitting the coin to travelfrom the exit end of the track into a.

chute; a coin receiving chute spaced apart from and having an intake endwhereby a coin issuing from the exit end of the track travels through anair gap to the intake end of` the chute member; a coin receiving,chambered structure communicating with the delivery end of the chutemember; and a coin actuated, tiltable Cover member for the intake end ofthe chute member; said initial coin receiving' member being of ornateform and said coin receiving chute member being oil animal body form;and said coin actuated tiltable cover member being in the form of thehead oit an animal.

Signed at New York city in tbe county of New York and State of New Yorkthis 3rd day of February, A. D. 1925.

THOMAS BUEL.

